From a revolving table in upstate New York, interiors, objects, and archives emerge through the discipline of production design and the quiet architecture of home.
SLOANEHOME is a living study of the American domestic imagination: A studio and evolving guild devoted to the belief that modernity and antiquity are not opposites, but reflections of one another across time. Drawing equally from place, cinema, architecture, and the language of character, the studio creates interiors, objects, and archives that treat the home as a vessel for memory, continuity, and cultural meaning rather than acquisition alone.
FROM
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VITRINE
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Gothic
Desk Collection.
“SLOANEHOME offers the AUTHORED CHARACTER of an environment, allowing the atmosphere of a place to be interpreted and realized beyond the studio itself.”
Each piece begins as a study.
Objects
Domestic forms recovered from the first documented tableau in Skaneateles, New York.
001 - THE BOOKS
Recovered volumes from the working table. Bindings worn by time and handling.
MATERIAL
Paper/Cloth/Leather
ORIGIN
Secondary market, central New York
CONDITION:
Restored
SOLD
002 - THE PITCHER
A pewter vessel used for water and light. Surface burnished by years of handling.
MATERIAL
Pewter
ORIGIN
Regional antique market
CONDITION:
Original patina
NOT FOR SALE
003 - THE CANDLE + DISH
Light placed on a simple pewter dish. A study in atmosphere and time.
MATERIAL
Pewter/Beeswax
ORIGIN
Small-batch maker
CONDITION:
ARCHIVED for Story
Recorded without revision.
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STORIED INTERIORS
HOME IS THEATER
TO DESIGN IS TO INHABIT.
STORIED INTERIORS
DOMESTIC STUDY
The first interior study emerges from one of the last remaining Gothic Revival picturesque houses in the region designed by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis, whose work, alongside that of A. J. Downing’s helped shape the American domestic imagination of the nineteenth century.
Citation: Alexander Jackson Davis architectural drawings and papers, 1804-1900, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
01.THe SourcE
PRE-ARCHIVE 00-01—00-06
SLOANEHOME is a studio, atelier, and evolving archive devoted to the study, method, and origin of contemporary domestic design. Based in Skaneateles, the practice gathers objects, interiors, and historical reference into a living body of work that treats the home as a cultural stage—where memory, craft, and contemporary life converge.
At the center of the studio is a large working table, understood not simply as furniture but as a tableau: a rotating surface on which objects, materials, and arrangements are composed, tested, and documented over time. From this ground emerge the visual studies, interior compositions, and material discoveries that define the work of SLOANEHOME.
The tableau functions as both laboratory and theater.
It is not a decorative display, but the first stage of a process that leads toward interiors, publications, and physical environments. Each composition is photographed, catalogued, and preserved within the growing SLOANEHOME ARCHIVE—a record of the studio’s evolving research into domestic space, cinematic narrative, and the continuity between analog place and digital form.
02.the Principal
MODERNITY IS ANTIQUITY.
SLOANEHOME is founded on a this CORNERSTONE; Modernity becomes antiquity the instant it is preserved.
In a cultural moment increasingly defined by speed and digital mediation, the human hand regains the authority.
Across the creative disciplines, the atelier re-emerges as the place where objects, interiors, and environments acquire lasting meaning. SLOANEHOME expands upon this lineage, recording the formation of the contemporary interior as it becomes the artifact of its time.
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